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Who Are The Log Cabin Republicans?
*A political, non-profit organization, made up of Republicans who happen to be gay, and friends and supporters thereof.
*Over 11,000 strong nationwide with over 50 chapters.
*The mission of the Log Cabin Republicans is to work within the Republican Party for the equal rights of all Americans, including gay men and women.
*The mission of the Log Cabin Republicans derives from our firm belief in the principles of limited government, individual liberty, individual responsibility, free markets and a strong national defense. We emphasize that these principles and the moral values that underlie them are consistent with the pursuit of equal treatment under the law for gay men and women. We believe these same core principles also best serve the best interests of the gay community.
*The mission of the Log Cabin Republicans shall be advanced at the local, state and federal levels through strategies coordinated by the members and leadership of the national organization and by the members and leadership of each state and local club. Through education, we intend to demostrate that Republicans who are also openly gay can, in a spirit of solidarity and itegrity, contribute substantially to the building of our Party and to the electoral success of our Party's standard-bearers. The result of this effort will not only be to secure full equality for gays but also to strengthen the Republican Party and to elect Republican candidates to public office.
*Participate and lobby elected officials within the Republican Party.
*Operate as a voice and body of change for specific issues and candidates throughout the local, state, and federal government.
Many in the gay community, as well as many in the Republian Camp, are shocked when they see, or hear, "gay and "Republican", describing the same person.
The gay community automatically thinks that all within the community are Democrats, Independents, or at least Libertarians. Republicans think the same thing. Ironic!
The gay community, of all communities, should know better than to try and generalize a group of people. We come in all shapes, sizes, ages, professions, ethnic backgrounds and religions. And yes, different political philosophies.
We never had a choice of whether to be gay or hetro, but we do have other choices in this life. Politics is one of the things in which we can make a choice. Neither the gay community, nor the Right Wingers of the Republican Party have the right to take away that choice.
We in LCR have chosen the Republican Party because it best fits our personal beliefs. The GOP, with its roots in Abraham Lincoln, is the best way for us to go politically.
We believe we should be fiscally responsible, not just individually, but also nationally. That we should only do for others what they cannot do for themselves, so as not to take away a person's self-respect and worth. This is crucial for happiness. The GOP believes this.
A smaller and less intrusive government with lower taxes!!! We in LCR believe in this and so does the Republican Party. That means less interference in our lives. To let us as individuals pursue our own happiness. This is our constitutional right! Stay out of our homes and out of our bed rooms! And more take home pay is always nice too.
O.K.! It is true that there are some right-winged fanatics within the Republican Party who do not realize that there is a seperation of church and state and do not believe that all people, except those they choose, have constitutional rights. They are very vocal, which is why you always hear about them, but truthfully, they are a minority of the Republican Party. The Democrat Party has their left-winged fanatics as well. You know that when you go so far to the left or so far to the right, you end up in the same place. Just a bunch of wackos who have set themsleves up as judges, thinking that we as individuals do not have the ability to make our own choices, so they must make them for us, that they know better than we do what is best for us. We think NOT! We will make our own choices.
We believe each of us has the right to choose our life's path. The right to pursue happines (as defined by us for ourselves). The choice of where we want to live, what profession we wish to pursue and be part of, where to seek our entertainment and what kind of entertainment we wish to choose. The choice to attend the church, synagogue, mosque, etc. that we wish, or not attend if we so choose. And the right to choose the political party of which we feel best fits our own philosophies.
No, we did not have a choice of whether to be gay or hetro, but yes, we do have the choice of which political party to be associated with.
By Senator JOHN C. Danforth
of Missouri
By Senator Barry Goldwater
of Arizona
To see why we gay republicans need to support Republicans over the alegedly "gay-friendly" Democrats, let's pretend for a few minutes that in 2004, the Republican party, for whatever reasons, pretty much evaporates. Democrats control the Senate, the House, the White House, and most of the governorships of the nation. The year is now 2020...
On the evening of July 4, 2020, I am riding the bus home from work. There will be no Independence Day celebrations; now that we all know that our Founding Fathers were racist, sexist, homophobic bigots, it is not appropriate to celebrate the founding of our nation. The bus is crowded and I have to stand up. Almost no one can afford a car since the gas tax raised the price of gas to $8 a gallon and the new regulations protecting the environment drove the car companies almost to bankruptcy. Oddly enough, pollution and extinctions of endangered species had only increased.
I get off the bus a few blocks away from my home to stop at the grocery store. The shelves are kind of barren; it's hard for me to remember what the stores of my youth were like, with their crowded shelves and wide variety of products. But now our solidly Democratic government has been protecting us from the exploitation of the evil corporations that used to produce that merchandise for a decade and a half. I make a few carefully budgeted purchases; income tax now takes 70% of income, requiring all consumers to be fiscal conservatives in their personal purchases.
I begin to walk the few blocks to my home, but two large men grab me and drag me into an alley. I spend the next hour being raped and beaten. When they are finished, they steal my groceries and the few dollars I have. In my youth, I carried a gun for self-defense, but in this enlightened era, we know that gun ownership causes crime, and consequently it has been outlawed.
I get on another bus -- there is no way I could afford a taxi now that I've been robbed -- and nearly an hour later am at the hospital. Like all hospitals for the last decade, it is owned and paid for by the government. They tell me that they will put me on their waiting list and perhaps see me in two weeks. I protest, "Isn't this an emergency? Can't I see a doctor right now, just for a few minutes?" They explain, "Well, you used up your monthly allotment of health care already. Everyone gets an equal amount; that's only fair. Also, you know that there are very few doctors or nurses anymore, as these jobs now pay next to nothing, and there's a severe shortage of medicines of all kinds, unless we can get Congress to increase our funding again. I suggest you take some aspirin."
From there I go to the police station to file a report about the crime. After taking the report, the policeman assures me, "If -- er, I mean, *when* -- we find the culprits, I promise you that they'll be sentenced to six months of therapy. Poor guys; they obviously came from underprivileged backgrounds."
"Um... isn't there any chance they might go to jail?" I ask tentatively.
"Jail?!? And how are we going to make room for them in our jails? I suppose you want us to release all the tobacco company executives," he says sarcastically. "Wait a minute -- were your attackers African-American? Or Asian-American? Or Arabic-American? That's the real point, isn't it? You're a racist who thinks all persons of colors should be jailed and persecuted!"
"Of course not," I say meekly, and leave. I get on another bus, and now, nearly midnight, I'm home at last.
I'm greeted by my life partner and her suitcases. "I'm sorry, Eve, but I'm leaving you."
"What? Why?"
"Well, John who I work with asked me to marry him. After the increase in violent crime in our neighborhood, I need someone to protect me, and that means a man. He's tall and strong; you're 5'3 and female. If we still had a police force that actually arrested people, or if we could own guns, it would be okay, but as it is...."
"But he's a bully and a jerk! You know that there's nothing to stop him from leaving you any time he feels like!" I remind her.
"But at least I'll have his protection for the time that he still finds me attractive. It's practically suicide for a woman to leave her home alone these days."
There is nothing I can say to this. Almost no women are still willing to live the Lesbian life anymore; the need for protection in a violent world forces most women to seek a male protector.
The next morning on my way to the bus stop, I pick up some newspapers to read. "The Conservative News", the only paper that still opposes the ruling party, has an article about the human rights violations still going strong in Saddamia, formerly known as the Arabian peninsula. After the defeat of George W. Bush in 2004, no one except Israel has opposed Saddam's efforts to take over the entire Middle East, plus a chunk of Africa. Israel resisted for a long time, with no help from Europe or Democratic America, but eventually fell. Now all former Israeli citizens have been rounded up and put into camps, where they are being tortured and slaughtered at a rate that makes Nazi Germany look like amateur hour. The Democratic president of the US, like all of the Democratic presidents since Bush, is trying hard to resolve the situation diplomatically. For the last 15 years, Saddam has received an unrelenting stream of diplomacy from the US, and has cheerfully continued annexing other nations and torturing his people. But all of this is oddly missing from the mainstream newspapers, which I start reading next.
The mainstream papers are full of the Democratic president's latest actions on gay rights. During his campaign, he gave a stirring speech: "All Americans should be equal regardless of sexual orientation. I condemn any politician who has ever said anything anti-gay. I promise that if elected, I will ensure complete political, legal equality for homosexuals."
Of course, all the Democratic presidents since Bush had said the same thing, and we still had DOMA and no hate crimes legislation and so on, but at least they *said* it. So I voted for this man who was so openly pro-gay.
An attempt to repeal DOMA had just narrowly passed Congress, and the president had vetoed it. He had also introduced a bill which would re-criminalize homosexual intercourse. I am not surprised; this is how all Democratic politicians have always operated. I wonder how homosexuals in their 20's would react if I tried to tell them that sodomy was legalized under a Republican president by a Supreme Court made up almost entirely of Republican appointees.
Another item in the paper says that the president is also backtracking on his promise to combat the newest terrorist menace, Cuba. A year earlier, Cuba dropped a couple of nuclear warheads on San Francisco. The president, then a mere candidate, pledged to take military action against them. After taking office, he explained that he would only actually do so with the approval of the UN. Most UN nations had approved, but the nation that gave us Stalin, the nation that gave us Hitler, and the nation that cheerfully cooperated with Hitler all withheld their approval, so we had taken no action against Cuba. They had dropped another nuclear bomb on Los Angeles, but after much diplomacy, they had promised not to drop anymore.
I arrive at work at 9 am. My office is on the 30th floor of one of the very few skyscrapers left in America. It's hard to believe that in my youth, the country was full of proud structures. Almost all of them have been destroyed by the frequent terrorist attacks which have occurred almost every month since Bush was voted out of office. But there hasn't been one for almost two and a half months now; maybe all that diplomacy is finally paying off.
Just as I think that, I hear a scream. I look up and out the window just in time to see the jet heading straight for us.
My last thought before the impact is, "Thank God our president said nice things about homosexuals."
It'll never happen? Of course not. Because the Republican party won't let it. But this is precisely what gay and "gay-friendly" Democrats would like to deliver us into. I think I've made my case as clear as it possibly can be.
~Eve Taggart
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